Train engine emits smoke and knocking, crew isolates it, Cherokee County SC
Fire & ArsonTrain crew reported loud knocking and heavy smoke from the lead locomotive engine compartment. The crew isolated and stopped the engine to prevent fire or explosion.
Audio|Source: Upstate South Carolina NS Rail - Caesars Head Mountain
03:19
Transcript:
00:00
I've got a knocking that keeps getting louder and louder from the engine compartment area and we see a lot of heavy smoke.
00:10
I mean it's still running but I don't know if there's a way you can log into it and check the blue boil or anything.
00:20
I can't check the live oil remotely.
00:22
That's something we would have to do physically there.
00:25
If you're getting a loud knocking, not getting heavy smoking, that's definitely we need to pull over in a minimum inspect of more than likely this unit's bad order needs to be shut down.
00:33
Again, I don't know if you can switch towers and find me here over.
00:40
What was the you man?
00:42
Are you good? The man did you a little by?
00:45
All right, I don't cover that, thank you.
00:46
Have your conductor all right when he gets back up, though.
00:49
All right.
00:53
Yeah,
00:55
so if you're getting a loud knocking and increasingly getting louder and smoke coming from the engine bay, that's a, I mean, we need to stop that unit now before something blows up, to be 100% honest with you.
01:08
All right, it's our lead unit and I've got a B unit with such way that I can isolate this lead unit and take us the rest of the way into the mechanical forces in Columbia at our next stop.
01:24
Far away is that.
01:30
About 80 miles, I'm not getting to knock it when it's under a small load.
01:35
It's just when I get up to about 40 kilofounds or higher, it starts making a racket over.
01:46
All right, and you can't isolate and use those choice they're correct?
01:50
I believe so, yes.
01:54
All right, we'll give a shot here, so I would go ahead and isolate it.
01:59
If the knocking goes away while it's an idle, then by all means you can keep it running suddenly.
02:04
You guys have some sort of heat, but if that knocky and that smoke does not go away, then it will need to be shut down and do a stick without, you know, running.
02:12
Understood,
02:13
yeah,
02:14
we'll give that a shot and we'll see what it does.
02:18
Okay, Rack ID in mileposts.
02:21
Tango Delta Bravo 2 Extra.
02:25
All right, I copy that.
02:28
I'm going to get to put it on.
02:29
Mitcher just press them know that this shit is bad order.
02:32
All right.
02:34
Lock you out.
02:36
Come in there, Ma.
02:39
Go for Maude.
02:41
You don't mind.
02:42
I have to the comments, whatever.
02:44
That's the boat coming into the cab.
02:49
Well... I mean that that changes everything are we are we needing that there we need to get out of the cab
02:56
it's okay going coming into the cab it doesn't miss up we can't deal with up
03:03
sure they know that's how bad it is all right uh
03:10
I want to hear anybody but isolate that unit and quit putting it under power so that way we can see if that smoke stops.
03:16
We get it isolated right now.
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Cherokee County, SC
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